The builders continued with adjusting the drainage today.
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Its under the ground now but Photo 1 shows the inspection chamber in the background moved so that instead of it being on a right-angle, it now sits in the middle of two 45 degree bends. Small details but the foul waste now runs through the center of the chamber.
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Photo 3 shows the 100mm inspection chamber moved so that the foul waste, seen coming through the footings also now runs through the center of the chamber, with the rainwater drain coming in through the inlet on the left. Looks much better than how it was originally in the photo below.
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The main drain line needs to run through the foundations of the garage and to the front of the property where a man-hole connects to the public sewer. Photo 5 shows the guys searching to find where they put a conduit as a placeholder for the pipe while pouring the concrete. It took a lot of digging and time but eventually the conduit was found. Its the blue hole visible through the garage footings in photos 6 and 7 below.
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Cloakroom Dilemma
The cloakroom under the stairs has been troubling me all weekend as we try to squeeze a shower/wetroom into it. The space is about 1m deep by 2m wide as you step into it. It then goes to 2m in length under the stairs after which it becomes too low.
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Photo 8 shows the toilet under the stairs, freeing up a lot of space for the shower with full height in the corner as depicted in Photo 9.
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The main problem with this option was that the shower will be used only in emergencies, the toilet would be used more. It just seemed wrong to have to go through the shower area to get to the toilet.
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So we could move the toilet into the corner and the shower under the stairs? There was sufficient clearance between the toilet and getting to the shower but headroom for the shower was a big problem. In actual fact, with both options the floor would have to be lower than the original height (as seen by where the brickwork becomes exposed). That would require digging down further to allow for 100mm hard-core, a sand layer, 100mm of concrete followed by 100mm insulation and 70mm screed. Thats 370mm but we only have about 200mm. Going lower would then impact the drainage as there may not be enough of a fall for the waste to connect to the pipes outside. So these options were not looking too good.
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Could we move the toilet in front of the door, with a small corner wash-basin on a wall panel to separate it from the shower? This would not require any further digging and we would have good headroom for the shower. The window will obviously have to be moved to where the toilet and wash basin will be (currently a door shown in Photo 12)
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Photo 12 shows that there should be enough clearance to get past the toilet to access the shower. A similar panel to the one that is seen could provide a nice separation from the shower area.
This floorplanner.com software is pretty good. We can even get a 3D image of the room
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